Syllable matching is such a useful feature, that we
recommend enabling it, unless the above condition is true. If you think
performance is affected, the symptoms of too large an index are:

• Disk thrashing while building or
rebuilding a large project, while little progress is being made.

• Opening or closing a project takes
a long time.

• Synchronizing individual files is
slow.

• Browse Project Symbols (F7) is slow
to come up, accompanied by a lot of disk activity. Some delay is normal
the first time you use it.

• Your project has over 2 or 3 million
index entries. Obviously, this limit depends on the amount of RAM you
have.

• Your hard drive light never seems
to go off, or your system pauses for a long time while the disk is flushed.

If you experience slow-downs and you have a large project,
(say over 200,000 symbols,) you should try turning off Quick browsing
for symbol syllables. You can find out how large the database is by
selecting Project > Rebuild Project and looking at the statistics
on the bottom of the dialog box. Just cancel this dialog box when you
are done. If the index entries are in the millions, then things can
start to slow down. However, a Pentium III class machine with 256 MB
of RAM should handle this size project well.